Dawn in CA On Thursday, January 29 at 10:11 am

Beautiful either way!!
Hope you all are doing ok there..we got it bad in NW Arkansas. We may never melt out of this!! :O)

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Monica On Thursday, January 29 at 10:11 am

I love that about the season’s too. Here in Minnesota the difference is pretty extreme. I didn’t realize they were that stream as far south as Oklahoma though! I guess I’m just a sheltered northern girl.

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Amy in Atlanta On Thursday, January 29 at 10:12 am

We go from 60 degrees and sunny to 30 degrees and raining! This winter has been crazy!

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Monica On Thursday, January 29 at 10:12 am

apparently I wrote stream instead of extreme…not sure what happened there.

Oh no, I don’t miss the change of drastic seasons at all. I’ll just stay in Texas and forget Canada has four seasons. It makes me happy inside to know I don’t ever have to deal with 6 feet of snow again. Ever.

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Melissa On Thursday, January 29 at 10:12 am

Love the frosty prarie! I do love the rolling green of summer…

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Debbie On Thursday, January 29 at 10:14 am

absolutely gorgeous!!!

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Melanie from Deep in the Heart of Central Texas On Thursday, January 29 at 10:15 am

Where I live there usually isn’t much change until summer hits. Here lately we would love any type of mositure, be it rain, sleet or snow. We need anything we.

Love the contrast in the photos. Winter is my least favorite time of year. It’s cold. It’s snowy. It’s bleak. It’s gray, then white, then muddy brown. Then snowy again. And cold. And there’s snow. It’s windy. I have to put on 43 layers just to get the mail. Did I mention cold and snowy?

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Sheila On Thursday, January 29 at 10:20 am

Up here in Canada it is either frost covered or under thick blankets of snow. Then you get the temperature inversion (where I am, anyway) and that brings FOG. I hate fog.
Lovely land you have. I like the rolling hills.

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Marla On Thursday, January 29 at 10:20 am

As my Mama always says, if you don’t like the weather, stick around, it will change in a few hours! Beautiful pictures!

tweetybirdus On Thursday, January 29 at 10:21 am

Oh, I would have been so nervous about the orginal porch, scary. But the new deck is very beautiful and safe looking. I just love the lodge updates, though, I have to admit, I’m very jealous of your kitchen, the lodge’s kitchen as well as the one in your home. I have a small galley style kitchen, two butts max.

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Beth On Thursday, January 29 at 10:23 am

In addition to each having it’s own purpose, it also has it’s own beauty.

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Peggy On Thursday, January 29 at 10:23 am

I really enjoy seeing each season’s beauty. Your ranch pictures are so beautiful.

JV On Thursday, January 29 at 10:24 am

Brrrr! My mama keeps begging us to move to Enid where she, my dad and two of my sisters (and their familes) live. These ice pictures are one of the reasons I always tell her no way! YUCK! I’m in southern california (laguna hills, you know the area!)

that’s beautiful! i live in houston. what the heck are “seasons” again??

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Barb 1230 On Thursday, January 29 at 10:37 am

Those winter shots are beautiful. I’ll take that any day over what we have here – about a foot of snow on the ground and temps. in the mid teens. I can’t wait to see the trees sprouting again. And I always love that first smell of fresh cut grass that I get around early May.

Cindy On Thursday, January 29 at 10:42 am

I love the different seasons. I live in St. Louis and we just had our first winter storm. We got 8 inches of snow!!! I just love when I get snow days from work! The dogs love playing in the snow, even if the snow comes up to the belly of one of them. Now I’m ready for Spring

I love these photos. The ‘landscape’ reminds me so much of the Flint Hills in Kansas, which I loooooooove and which everyone driving through KS on I-70 thinks of as boring and ‘flat’. I think people confuse ‘treeless’ with ‘flat’. I love the treeless, open spaces.

Actually, perhaps you ARE in the Flint Hills, since they extend into north-central Oklahoma. At any rate, it’s beautiful where you are!

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Crystal On Thursday, January 29 at 11:01 am

I love the deck! I think that when the weather is better, I would find a good book and a comfy chair and spend some time there. But, it might be hard to concentrate on reading with a view like that to distract you.

Brrr.
I can’t even comprehend weather like that down here in Alabama. It’s 44 today and we think we’re gonna freeze to death.
But what a beautiful view!

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Patty W On Thursday, January 29 at 11:07 am

Gorgeous!

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Cal Gal On Thursday, January 29 at 11:07 am

Yes, in San Diego we have two seasons ~ perfect and slightly less than perfect. We go to the beach on Christmas sometimes. This is why my daughters love traveling to cold-weather cities, just for the novelty.
Keep ya toes warm, PW.

Isn’t it refreshing to note that this section of your site is called home and GARDEN… and before we know it, GARDEN will be on all our minds. Green is coming… eventually, but it IS coming! Can’t wait to set my garden with you

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Bridget On Thursday, January 29 at 11:08 am

I love the changing of the seasons. For a few years, we lived in Texas and there just wan’t enough change for me. I LOVE MINNESOTA!

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TRACY On Thursday, January 29 at 11:09 am

I wish we had some snow here in GA. It’s it beautiful there!!!

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Daisy On Thursday, January 29 at 11:11 am

I’m with #9 (Krista)…..I definitely don’t miss the several feet of snow from the winters in Northern Utah….but on the downside…Texas doesn’t have fall….I really miss fall!!!

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Nikki On Thursday, January 29 at 11:12 am

Love love love these! What a beautiful contrast! It makes me remember why I DON’T pack up and move from the MIdwest to Florida…Thanks PW!

I need to find my “green” photos. RI three blocks from the ocean is NOT supposed to get as much snow and ice as we have had this season. It was fun the first snow, not so much anymore. Time to bake something chocolate.

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Andrea in FL On Thursday, January 29 at 11:18 am

I’ll take some of that white stuff…send it on down to Florida. But shhh don’t tell my friends.

I guess you aren’t used to white stuff. Have you even spent much time in the North in the winter? Try living in northern Iowa! Oh, Baby…It’s cold!

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Cynthia On Thursday, January 29 at 11:24 am

Brrrrr! I know how you feel. I live in Madison, Wisconsin. You will get there. Back to that green. And after the cold, you will appreciate the green even more. I love the seasons when they are right in your face!

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Monie On Thursday, January 29 at 11:25 am

I love winter. It’s so beautiful…
I know it can be a hardship, and I know it’s treacherous…but it’s sooooooo beautiful.

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Donna On Thursday, January 29 at 11:25 am

that truly is the beauty of where you live – you have 4 seasons – I have two – hot and hotter than hell!!! – Louisiana, ya know!!!!

Yep! My uncle called from Baton Rouge to tell me it was 80 degrees yesterday. The jerk! I think I’ll go look at my photos from last summer on the lake, when it was 95 degrees………and the sun was out………..and we went tubing…………and I whined about my sunburn. Lord forgive me. I’ll never whine again. (well – at least not today).

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Jersey Lou On Thursday, January 29 at 11:30 am

Gosh, it’s flat out there, huh? Beautiful, though.

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Cate Sparks On Thursday, January 29 at 11:31 am

1. i love all those photos
2. i can’t believe how green it was. beautiful.
3. please don’t walk on that deck right now. you’re lible to fall and break your neck.
4. i’ve fallen enough times on slippery (and some not) surfaces to look at that photo and have my hiney hurt.

Magnificent. I look out my back and see row upon row of houses, if there was only one thing I would change about where I live it would be to have no neighbours for a good distance. I hate, and I mean hate looking at the backs of everyones houses… one day, one day…

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Cheryl in WI On Thursday, January 29 at 11:39 am

BIG difference in seasons here. The view is either natural grass – or SNOW – like starting the weekend after Thanksgiving – we just never see even a peek of the ground again until early April…MAYBE late March… and it’s not ALL gone until late May till late June (depending on how high the plows piled it – and if the pile in the shade…)

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Misha On Thursday, January 29 at 11:40 am

I sure miss that green too. We have been hit with snow storm after snow storm this winter, (Northern Lower Michigan). We were just given a winter storm warning for another 6 – 10 inches today & tomorrow. At this rate we will not see that glorious green color again till July or August.
Love the view from your deck!

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mosheep/Denise On Thursday, January 29 at 11:40 am

Love the view from your deck.
It is so beautiful at both times of the year.
I imagine that spring and fall are just as beautiful.

Thanks for sharing the great pictures.

Denise

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Laura Moore On Thursday, January 29 at 11:43 am

I would be on that deck all the time ..beautiful !!!!! in all nauture’s phases

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Angie On Thursday, January 29 at 11:45 am

beautiful photos – i miss distinct seasons (I live in Southern California but I haven’t always….)

I agree. I love having all four seasons, which is probably the reason we’ll never move from ne Indiana to a warmer climate. And, btw, I’ve never appreciated snow (we have 6″ on the ground) more than after talking to our son who lives in Tulsa and hearing about all the ice down there. I’m alot better at driving in snow than on ice.

Stay warm. Springs coming!

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Emily On Thursday, January 29 at 11:48 am

Here’s an idea…PW outdoor webcam!

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Media On Thursday, January 29 at 11:49 am

It truly is beautiful either way. I can’t wait for the spring thaw, it feels like winter has been going on forever this year. 12″ yesterday with a couple of inches of ice on top and another major storm coming on Tuesday. WooHoo!!

I’m with ya…I forget what GREEN looks like these days… and it’s my favorite color!

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The Imp On Thursday, January 29 at 12:01 pm

Hmm… how is it we can still see the GROUND, though? I mean, I look out the window and all I see is feet upon feet of SNOW.

I’m hoping for green by April this year.

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Circle F On Thursday, January 29 at 12:01 pm

hey P Dub – if you have some of those big plastic storage boxes… they showed some kids on the news in OKC sliding down a hill in one… looked like FUN

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Steph H. #1 Buckeye Fan On Thursday, January 29 at 12:02 pm

Dang! Just look at all of that ice. At least there aren’t many trees to bring down the power lines. Our area of Ohio looked like that the week before Christmas. It was very pretty when the sun came out and shone on the trees.